Adamo by Dell is out. Or at least, it’s orderable. I saw no press release. You can order online now.

*crickets*

Adamo is a pretty laptop that Dell put out to try to compete with MacBook Air. What’s unfortunate is that MacBook Air wasn’t the one to copy. The world has little need for 1.2 or 1.4 GHz CPUs no matter how thin, no, certainly not when the complete package starts at $3,212.

The Adamo is certainly beautiful. But sluggish beauty doesn’t bring about desire. Bring me a moderately thin (but not that thin) laptop with a 2.4 GHz multi-core processor that keeps cool and I might think $3,000-ish to be fair. On the other hand, most preppies and corporate execs don’t do much more than web surfing and Microsoft Office (oOooo .. PowerPoint ..) so for them who cares what speed it is. I guess.

This is clearly an Apple vs. Dell thing that we as consumers should hopefully be bored with.

I meanwhile am really bummed out that Toshiba’s hardcore laptop, the Qosmio X305, looks like a glossy, translucent, open box of cheap Valentine’s Day chocolates. My X205-S9359 was one of the best multi-purpose laptops on the market two years ago and it looks like it can handle either role of a professional corporate environment or a hardcore gamer. But Toshiba apparently changed their minds and want these things to appeal to gay little boys and spoiled rotten gamer girls.

Translucent colorful cases went away with the original iMac like dance floor rap music went the way of dorky memories of the 90s.